Model-based structural optimization of seawater desalination plants

Desalination

Volumn 292, Issue , 2012, Pages 30-44

  Skiborowski, Mirko ^a   Mhamdi, Adel ^a   Kraemer, Korbinian ^a   Marquardt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desalination; Hybrid; MINLP; Optimization; Superstructure

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; GLOBAL SOLVERS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HYBRID; HYBRID DESALINATION PLANTS; HYBRID PLANTS; INITIAL SOLUTION; MEMBRANE-BASED PROCESS; MINLP; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIEFFECT DISTILLATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PROCESS STRUCTURES; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANTS; STEPWISE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SUPERSTRUCTURE; THERMAL DESALINATION PLANT; USER INTERACTION; WHOLE PLANTS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DISTILLATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SEAWATER; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

DESALINATION;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84859422932     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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